Windows 8 is simply just to shocking of a difference for most casual users who are used to what Windows used to look like. I don't think Windows 8 is anything like noticeably slower, but it's a major cluster mess!!

Definitely don't even want any touch screen crap for my every day use either!! I don't work in a grocery store either, which is about the type environment that thing was designed for!!

Windows 8 is simply just to shocking of a difference for most casual users who are used to what Windows used to look like. I don't think Windows 8 is anything like noticeably slower, but it's a major cluster mess!!

Definitely don't even want any touch screen crap for my every day use either!! I don't work in a grocery store either, which is about the type environment that thing was designed for!!

Nice idea there but I'd rather not go back to horrible tearing windows on XP. I think I'll take "laggy scrolling" (which hasn't been a problem since 2007?) over all other problems that come with XP (not even talking about security).

Expecting XP users to learn anything is probably a fools errand, but I still keep trying.

Sigh.

unhun.... i think you guys have forgotten XP in your zeal for the 'supposed' latest and greatest and the graphics issues havent been fixed in vista/7/8. The winner is amply clear when you dual boot.

ill go with xp... since it has hardware accelration for GDI.. so the website scrolling is much faster in xp than 7 or 8 which both feel slow unless you are using internet explorer. browsing is a major task so overall feel of the OS much snappier if browsing/scrolling is seemless and real fast.

unhun.... i think you guys have forgotten XP in your zeal for the 'supposed' latest and greatest and the graphics issues havent been fixed in vista/7/8. The winner is amply clear when you dual boot.

The winner is amply clear when you use multi-monitor, dock/undock your laptop without needing a shutdown/reboot, memory management when you have various apps running for days, dragging windows over a hung app, SSD in laptop/desktop, use desktop search, like+use keyboard shortcuts, pin_rearrange taskbar buttons and many others.So as I said, I would rather have these than minor graphical glitches in Firefox/Chrome/device manager (Firefox is my secondary browser and I stopped installing+using Chrome).

ill go with xp... since it has hardware accelration for GDI.. so the website scrolling is much faster in xp than 7 or 8 which both feel slow unless you are using internet explorer. browsing is a major task so overall feel of the OS much snappier if browsing/scrolling is seemless and real fast.

This is not really true. In windows 7/8 GDI acceleration is deprecated in favor of the newer direct2d. I don't know what browser you are using, but if you are using a modern browser you should have hardware accelerated layers and smooth scrolling, which should perform even better. Both firefox and IE have this via direct2d and directx. Chrome has hardware acceleration too via opengl, but is lagging behind real far in the smooth scrolling department though (there's a flag you can enable but it still doesn't even work on all webpages and pales in comparison to firefox and ie's smooth scrolling )

Windows 8 is simply just to shocking of a difference for most casual users who are used to what Windows used to look like. I don't think Windows 8 is anything like noticeably slower, but it's a major cluster mess!!

Definitely don't even want any touch screen crap for my every day use either!! I don't work in a grocery store either, which is about the type environment that thing was designed for!!

a different way of presenting the start menu is a shocking difference?

heck, I'd venture to say that the visual difference going from XP to Vista was more shocking than from 7 to 8